Severe mental disorders represent huge costs
to society in terms of pain and distress of the affected patients and their
families. Severe mental disorders, indeed, cause a heavy burden due to
morbidity and premature mortality, conditioning an increased risk of
unemployment, infirmity, unsafe and unhealthy habits, and representing the main
factor for suicide.

The project Neurobiology of the
Psychoses intended to reduce the social and economical burden caused by
severe mental disorders by favoring a better understanding and knowledge of the causes and the factors
that affect the onset, the course and the outcome
of severe mental disorders.